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#NdiIgbo I want everyone one of you to see what is happening in #NagornoKarabakh, Internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan. It had been home to an ethnic Armenian population for centuries. As the Soviet Union collapsed in the late 1980s Just as Igbos are claiming home to Lagos and Northerner part of Nigeria Into the early 1990s, Nagorno-Karabakh's Armenians tried to break away from Azerbaijan, declaring independence , they built cites inside another man’s country , like most Igbos are doing in Nigeria since and after the Nigerian civil war . Today , Azerbaijani told the Armenians that by January 2024 , #NagornoKarabakh region will cease to exist and will no more be a home for #Armenias because they are not wanted in Azerbaijani. Over couple of days ago , more 100, 000 Armenians have left #NagornoKarabakh, #Azerbaijani and ran to Armenia, leaving the whole cities they built in Azerbaijani, because they remembered their genocide in the hands of the Turks and they don’t want a repetition of what happened to them to occur again. They have abandoned everything they built in #Azerbaijan , their wealth and properties and return to the Armenia an indigenous home for the Armenias . These Armenias are not talking about their container business , their shops ,their one story building they built or their face me I face you compound they built . Therefore , Igbos must learn from these people and reflect what is happening now and what happened to the Igbos in 1967-1970, it was not a fiction or fairy tale , it was a genocide . Ethnic profiling is very dangerous any where in the world and in most cases it’s leads to genocide against a target group of people if care is not taken , it happened to the Jews in Europe , the Armenia’s , the Rwandese even to the Biafrans , the only difference among these people and Biafrans is that , others have learnt their lessons while many Igbo Biafran have failed to learn anything . “Aghara ndu kpa aku, onye iro eri ya” #NagornoKarabakh #armenia #Biafra #FreeBiafraNow #FreeMaziNnamdiKanu Directorate Of State (DOS) Chika Edoziem Austin Agbanyim Isaiah Uba Official Emeka Gift Official Peter Obi Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Going Underground

#NdiIgbo I want everyone one of you to see what is happening in #NagornoKarabakh, Internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan. It had been home to an ethnic Armenian population for centuries. As the Soviet Union collapsed in the late 1980s Just as Igbos are claiming home to Lagos and Northerner part of Nigeria Into the early 1990s, Nagorno-Karabakh's Armenians tried to break away from Azerbaijan, declaring independence , they built cites inside another man’s country , like most Igbos are doing in Nigeria since and after the Nigerian civil war . Today , Azerbaijani told the Armenians that by January 2024 , #NagornoKarabakh region will cease to exist and will no more be a home for #Armenias because they are not wanted in Azerbaijani. Over couple of days ago , more 100, 000 Armenians have left #NagornoKarabakh, #Azerbaijani and ran to Armenia, leaving the whole cities they built in Azerbaijani, because they remembered their genocide in the hands of the Turks and they don’t want a repetition of what happened to them to occur again. They have abandoned everything they built in #Azerbaijan , their wealth and properties and return to the Armenia an indigenous home for the Armenias . These Armenias are not talking about their container business , their shops ,their one story building they built or their face me I face you compound they built . Therefore , Igbos must learn from these people and reflect what is happening now and what happened to the Igbos in 1967-1970, it was not a fiction or fairy tale , it was a genocide . Ethnic profiling is very dangerous any where in the world and in most cases it’s leads to genocide against a target group of people if care is not taken , it happened to the Jews in Europe , the Armenia’s , the Rwandese even to the Biafrans , the only difference among these people and Biafrans is that , others have learnt their lessons while many Igbo Biafran have failed to learn anything . “Aghara ndu kpa aku, onye iro eri ya” #NagornoKarabakh #armenia #Biafra #FreeBiafraNow #FreeMaziNnamdiKanu Directorate Of State (DOS) Chika Edoziem Austin Agbanyim Isaiah Uba Official Emeka Gift Official Peter Obi Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Going Underground

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George Deek, Israel's Special Envoy to the Christian World, is full of shit and hypocrisy. I have receipts. Yesterday in an interview with Fox News, he said: "We see the ethnic cleansing of the Christians who have been diminished from the 20% of the population of the Middle east to less than 2% of the population today" In 2023, George Deek was the Ambassador of Israel to Azerbaijan during the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). Israel, Turkey, and Azerbaijan were complicit in that ethnic cleansing, leading to the mass exodus of 150,000 Christian Armenians which saw the indigenous Armenian Christian population drop from 100% to 0%. Not a single Armenian Christian remains on a 2,000-year-old Armenian homeland; destroyed churches, desecrated graves, a historical Christian patrimony on the road to erasure. He didn't do anything to prevent that. On the contrary, he congratulated Aliyev's dictatorial regime in an interview with state-controlled Azeri outlet CaliberAz: "He described his diplomatic mission as deeply meaningful, particularly noting the honor of visiting the territories liberated by Azerbaijan. "It was an honour for me to be the first Israeli ambassador to Karabakh, to see Shusha, Fuzuli, and Kalbajar," Deek said, emphasising the symbolic importance of that visit." Furthermore, earlier this year Israeli FM Gideon Sa'ar dangled the recognition of the Armenian Genocide as a proverbial albeit performative fuck you to Erdogan's regime, only to have the motion removed from the Knesset's agenda, at the behest of Baku: "Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev ordered his government to immediately contact Israel following the Knesset’s decision since it was deemed “unfair, does not reflect historical reality, and unacceptable.”" Again, no public statement or visible display of condemnation, let alone outrage from Israel's Special Envoy to the Christian world. George Deek's great-grandmother was a survivor of that very same genocide, which claimed the lives of 1,5 million Armenians. Let that sink in. In conclusion, do not let this hasbara PR stunt fool you. The position of Special Envoy to the Christian world was created for damage control, to rehabilitate Israel's image, and certainly not to build bridges over supposed shared values. As evidenced, George Deek will defend the plight of Christians only if they align with the geopolitical interests of Israel, irrespective of any moral imperative. The ethnically cleansed Armenians of Artsakh are a living testament to that hypocrisy. Sources: - - - - -

George Deek, Israel's Special Envoy to the Christian World, is full of shit and hypocrisy. I have receipts. Yesterday in an interview with Fox News, he said: "We see the ethnic cleansing of the Christians who have been diminished from the 20% of the population of the Middle east to less than 2% of the population today" In 2023, George Deek was the Ambassador of Israel to Azerbaijan during the ethnic cleansing of Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). Israel, Turkey, and Azerbaijan were complicit in that ethnic cleansing, leading to the mass exodus of 150,000 Christian Armenians which saw the indigenous Armenian Christian population drop from 100% to 0%. Not a single Armenian Christian remains on a 2,000-year-old Armenian homeland; destroyed churches, desecrated graves, a historical Christian patrimony on the road to erasure. He didn't do anything to prevent that. On the contrary, he congratulated Aliyev's dictatorial regime in an interview with state-controlled Azeri outlet CaliberAz: "He described his diplomatic mission as deeply meaningful, particularly noting the honor of visiting the territories liberated by Azerbaijan. "It was an honour for me to be the first Israeli ambassador to Karabakh, to see Shusha, Fuzuli, and Kalbajar," Deek said, emphasising the symbolic importance of that visit." Furthermore, earlier this year Israeli FM Gideon Sa'ar dangled the recognition of the Armenian Genocide as a proverbial albeit performative fuck you to Erdogan's regime, only to have the motion removed from the Knesset's agenda, at the behest of Baku: "Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev ordered his government to immediately contact Israel following the Knesset’s decision since it was deemed “unfair, does not reflect historical reality, and unacceptable.”" Again, no public statement or visible display of condemnation, let alone outrage from Israel's Special Envoy to the Christian world. George Deek's great-grandmother was a survivor of that very same genocide, which claimed the lives of 1,5 million Armenians. Let that sink in. In conclusion, do not let this hasbara PR stunt fool you. The position of Special Envoy to the Christian world was created for damage control, to rehabilitate Israel's image, and certainly not to build bridges over supposed shared values. As evidenced, George Deek will defend the plight of Christians only if they align with the geopolitical interests of Israel, irrespective of any moral imperative. The ethnically cleansed Armenians of Artsakh are a living testament to that hypocrisy. Sources: - - - - -

Kegham Balian

57,837 views • 20 days ago

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BREAKING: George Deek, Israel's Special Envoy to the Christian World, says "We never got involved or took position in the conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, per se", which led to the ethnic cleansing of Christian Armenians and their Churches from Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh). You have to admire that carefully placed "per se". The amount of heavy lifting it does for Israel's image in the Christian world would've been commendable had it not been a typical hasbara escape hatch, absolving Israel of any responsibility or accountability, and invariably collapsing under the weight of Israel's own record during that war. In no particular order: ⁃According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), between 2016 and 2020, leading up to the 44 Day War, roughly 69% of weapons exports to Azerbaijan came from Israel, in a war that butchered 5,000 Armenian soldiers, barely adults. So neutral. ⁃The highly advanced Israeli weapons systems included loitering munitions (suicide drones) such as the IAI Harop and Elbit SkyStriker, Hermes 900 reconnaissance drones, Spike anti-tank guided missiles, and LORA surface-to-surface ballistic missiles. ⁃Israeli weapons manufacturer Aeronautics Defense Systems used a suicide drone by attacking Armenian positions during a sale presentation at the behest of Azeri officials who requested a live demonstration. ⁃Israeli military personnel trained Azeri soldiers in piloting drones. ⁃Azerbaijan supplies 65% of Israel's crude oil imports, which are pumped via the BTC pipeline through Georgia and Turkey. A clear energy security and arms agreement: you send oil, we give you weapons. So neutral. ⁃In December 2023, Azerbaijan effectively blockaded the Lachin Corridor, the only route between Armenia and Artsakh. A starvation campaign ensued for 9 months, targeting hundreds of thousands of Armenian indigenous Christians: Food shortages, supermarket shelves emptied, families lining up for hours for a piece of bread. No fuel. No medicine. Cancer patients requiring urgent treatment were stranded. Malnutrition. Miscarriages. George Deek was Ambassador at that time. He was there in Baku. Did he voice concern for the besieged Christians in Artsakh? No. His country enabled it. Haaretz, an Israeli outlet, even published a bombshell report entitled "Israel's fingerprints all over the ethnic cleansing of Nagorno-Karabakh". To quote the Special Christian envoy himself: "When violence against a vulnerable minority is ignored because acknowledging it is politically inconvenient, there is a name for it: abandonment." For Israel, the defense of the Armenian Christian presence in Artsakh was politically inconvenient. That is why they were complicit in the ethnic cleansing of 150,000 indigenous Christian Armenians from their 2,000-year-old homeland.

Kegham Balian

34,136 views • 3 months ago